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Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews

Sometimes a literature review returns a wealth of conflicting results that succeed only in clouding our knowledge rather than clarifying it.This is partly because literature is often not cumulative, making it the responsibility of the reader to synthesise knowledge across articles. This synthesis...

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Main Authors: Leseure, Michel, Shaw, Duncan, Atif, Hassan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2006
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L Education (General)
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/11498/1/347.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.114982014-07-14T08:25:21Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/11498/ Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews Leseure, Michel Shaw, Duncan Atif, Hassan L Education (General) Sometimes a literature review returns a wealth of conflicting results that succeed only in clouding our knowledge rather than clarifying it.This is partly because literature is often not cumulative, making it the responsibility of the reader to synthesise knowledge across articles. This synthesis involves a difficult cognitive process, but one that can be supported with modeling techniques.Through a case study the paper reports an unusual application of influence diagrams, and proposes a framework for building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews.The impact of the models on the case study organisation’s knowledge and decision making is presented. 2006-06-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/11498/1/347.pdf Leseure, Michel and Shaw, Duncan and Atif, Hassan (2006) Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews. In: Knowledge Management International Conference and Exhibition 2006 (KMICE 2006), 6-8 June 2006, The Legend Hotel Kuala Lumpur. http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic L Education (General)
spellingShingle L Education (General)
Leseure, Michel
Shaw, Duncan
Atif, Hassan
Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
description Sometimes a literature review returns a wealth of conflicting results that succeed only in clouding our knowledge rather than clarifying it.This is partly because literature is often not cumulative, making it the responsibility of the reader to synthesise knowledge across articles. This synthesis involves a difficult cognitive process, but one that can be supported with modeling techniques.Through a case study the paper reports an unusual application of influence diagrams, and proposes a framework for building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews.The impact of the models on the case study organisation’s knowledge and decision making is presented.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Leseure, Michel
Shaw, Duncan
Atif, Hassan
author_facet Leseure, Michel
Shaw, Duncan
Atif, Hassan
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title Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
title_short Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
title_full Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
title_fullStr Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
title_full_unstemmed Building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
title_sort building cumulative knowledge through literature reviews
publishDate 2006
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/11498/1/347.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/11498/
http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/
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